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Quotes About Trust

Now," said the young man, stooping gravely over his book of bills, "if you can assure me that I really can buy this kind of pious, and that it will be set down to my account in the book up above, as something belonging to me, I wouldn't care if I did go a little extra for it. How d'ye say?" "Wal, raily, I can't do that," said the trader. "I'm a thinkin that every man'll have to hang on his own hook, in them ar quarters.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Well, then, I will die!" said Tom. "Spin it out as long as they can, they can't help my dying, some time!—and, after that, they can't do no more. I'm clar, I'm set! I know the Lord'll help me, and bring me through.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
If I must be sold, or all the people on the place, and everything go to rack, why, let me be sold. I s'pose I can bar it as well as any on 'em," he added, while something like a sob and a sigh shook his broad, rough chest convulsively. "Mas'r always found me on the spot—he always will. I never have broke trust, nor used my pass no ways contrary to my word, and I never will. It's better for me alone to go, than to break up the place and sell all.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee; for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
They knelt together, and the good man prayed,—for there are some feelings so agitated and tumultuous, that they can find rest only by being poured into the bosom of Almighty love,—and then, rising up, the new-found family embraced each other, with a holy trust in Him, who from such peril and dangers, and by such unknown ways, had brought them together.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
if you only trust in God, and try to do right, he'll deliver you.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
never give up, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
there'll be the same God there Chloe that there is here
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
She missed him. And she was scared, deep down, because she felt him pulling away from her, and even though he assured her he wasn't, she didn't believe him.
~ Harriet Evans
The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot." "About what? You worry too much, about everything. You're to hard on yourself." "I was wrong about Rory -" "You were twenty-five, twenty-six! Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, its a mistake not to be.
~ Harriet Evans
Elle Remembered Yorkshire road and the flat he shared with Caitlin and their daughter, and she almost stopped and turned back, and then she hardened herself against it. It's his problem if he wants to sleep with someone and he shouldn't, she told herself. It's a one night thing. I'm in the clear. It's sex, nothing else.
~ Harriet Evans
NOT EVERYTHING IS FORGIVABLE Accepting an apology doesn't always mean reconciliation. The best apology in the world can't restore every connection. The words "I'm sorry" may be absurdly inadequate even if sincerely offered. Sometimes the foundation of trust on which a relationship was built cannot be repaired. We may never want to see the person who hurt us again. We can still accept the apology.
~ Harriet Lerner
Likewise, the other person has a right to know us accurately, to consider the relationship and make plans for the future based on facts, not fantasies or projections.
~ Harriet Lerner
privacy shifts into secrecy when an act of deliberate concealment or hiding has a significant impact on a relationship process
~ Harriet Lerner
working on key emotional issues at their source, lays the groundwork for more solid intimate relationships in the present or future.
~ Harriet Lerner
But fibbing, including "polite" or social lies, can become part of the daily fabric of living—a way of avoiding conflict and complication that becomes so habitual we fail to notice even the fact of it and its imperceptible erosion of our integrity and our relationships.
~ Harriet Lerner
When we talk about a person being a problem, rather than directly to the person, we add to the underground anxiety and make it harder for the talked-about person to behave with confidence and competence.
~ Harriet Lerner
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
~ Harriet Tubman
'Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did.
~ Harriet Tubman
I will keep praying, because no matter how He answer, I have tasted the goodness of God," she said. "There is no one else I would rather go to with my struggles and celebrations, knowing that he covers me with His love.
~ Harris Faulkner
Those who live with faith have a much better road, a much happier life.
~ Harris Faulkner
If I have the choice to pray and trust God--or the choice not to pray or trust Him--I'm going to pray and trust. Faith is a choice. And my journey has proved that faith in God is always the right choice.
~ Harris Faulkner
In Georgia to suspect was to believe, and the only hand you could really trust was that of your enemy because you knew it held a dagger.
~ Harrison E. Salisbury
Great brands, however, are authentic. They have endured because people have learned they are credible and have come to trust those brands to be what they say they are; great brands have integrity. What they say is integrated—integrated and integrity are related expressions—with what they do. No one responds to our efforts to be other than who we are. They respond to the good but bad, excellent but flawed person across the table from them.
~ Harry Beckwith